Water
You might be surprised to learn the amount of water used for animal agriculture.
In fact, the meat and dairy industry uses a full third of the entire planet’s fresh water.
Based on a global average of water consumption for beef production, it takes about 460 gallons of water to produce just one quarter pound hamburger.
And dairy isn’t much better, requiring 1,000 gallons of water to produce just one gallon of milk.
This is not only wasteful and inefficient, it is emblematic of a broken system of food production that is simply unsustainable.